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Re: Manual update for get.*_r functions

Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:

> AFAIK gethostbyname_r() is not standardized by POSIX.  If you look at
> the code in bind 8.2 (src/include/netdb.h) you see that there are
> two flavours of the various getXXbyYY_r functions.  Solaris and BSDI
> return a pointer to the resul buffer on success (and NULL on some sort
> of failure, which sets errno or stores something in h_errnop).

Solaris also implemented getpwbynam_r etc differently before.  But for
glibc we have done it after the POSIX specs were out and we modelled
all _r interfaces after the POSIX one.  Which is better since
consistent.  Take a look at the mess in the Solaris pwd.h file.

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